abu13
Well-Known Member
Sometimes you need a signing to shake things up a bit, i think we are in that situation now.
Would love to see a signing in January.
Would love to see a signing in January.
We won the league with Clichy, Sagna, Kompany, Hart and Zaba in the squad - sum total spend roughly under £20m. Also bought Yaya, David and Aguero for roughly what they paid for Van Dijk. Now that’s what you call shrewd business.
Exactly this. I know we love to talk about how smart we are with our signings, and how much research and time we spend on their personalities, etc, etc, but how do we not have a shortlist of players at each position that are ready to go from a scouting perspective that we can quickly pivot to if that's that the market dictates? It should not have been a surprise at all that we would've needed a centerback last summer. How do we only identify Maguire and leave no plan B? We did exactly the same thing the season before with Jorginho and basically got lucky that not getting him didn't ruin our season. It was only a matter of time before this dumb policy came back to bite us.But this is the problem, signing a CB right now shouldn't be kneejerk; we should have had a list of CB targets this summer since Kompany announced he was leaving and Otamendi flirted with leaving and only added to the list as the season has gone on. We had this ridiculous 'Maguire or bust' attitude this summer and not signing a CB now is just poor-planning not us avoiding being reactionary.
So tinkering or major changes?
What if we think we can get a much better centre half in the summer ?The best Centre half we can get for me in January!! Think were ok elsewhere (although not played to anywhere near the level we should be doing). Summer we may need more depending on the Aguero/Jesus situation and left back!!
What if we think we can get a much better centre half in the summer ?
We might not be in the CL anyway regardless of position in the league.Lose out on a CL place next season and that's £60mill gone. 2/3rds of the cost of a word class centre half.
Not to mention playing on a Thursday night in the Europa League.